Rosheim
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Coordinates: 48°29′51″N 7°28′13″E / 48.4975°N 7.47027778°E
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Commune of Rosheim |
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  Rosheim
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| Country | France |
| Region | Alsace |
| Department | Bas-Rhin |
| Arrondissement | Molsheim |
| Canton | Rosheim |
| Intercommunality | Canton of Rosheim |
| Mayor | Michel Herr (2008–14) |
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| Elevation | 164–842 m (540–2,760 ft) |
| Land area1 | 29.55 km2 (11.41 sq mi) |
| Population2 | 4,776 (2006) |
| - Density | 162 /km2 (420 /sq mi) |
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| INSEE/Postal code | 67411/ 67560 |
| 1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km² (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries. | |
| 2 Population sans doubles comptes: residents of multiple communes (e.g., students and military personnel) only counted once. | |
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Rosheim is a commune in the Bas-Rhin department in Alsace in north-eastern France.
It lies 25 km (16 mi) southwest of Strasbourg, on the eastern slopes of the Vosges mountains. It is a winemaking town on the touristic "Road of the Wines of Alsace" and the Route Romane d'Alsace ("Romanesque route of Alsace").
From the 14th to 17th centuries, Rosheim was an Imperial City of the Holy Roman Empire, and founded the Décapole confederation with nine other Alsatian Imperial Cities in 1354. Like the other Decapolitan cities, it was awarded to France by the Peace of Westphalia and finally lost its independence under the Treaties of Nijmegen.
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[edit] Geography
Distance from Paris 450 km, Strasbourg 25 km, Obernai 7 km, Molsheim 7 km.
[edit] Sights
- Church Saint-Pierre-et-Paul (building 12th century, tower 14th century, organ 18th century)
- Church Saint-Etienne (18th century, belltower 12th century)
- Maison païenne (“pagan house”, 12th century)
- City Hall (18th century)
- Old well (Puits aux six seaux) (17th century)
- Four fortified tower-gates (13th and 14th century)
- Half-timbered houses (16th century)
[edit] Notable people
- Heinrich Eggestein (ca. 1415–88), pioneering book printer
- Jean-Marie Lehn (born 1939), Nobel Prize 1987
- Claude Vasconi (born 1940), architect
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